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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: how to suspend a process
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Date: 19 Feb 91 02:57:41 GMT
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In article <10269:Feb1821:14:1591@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>This is a matter of opinion. Some people believe that the shell should
>handle all tty mode changes, including restoring modes after a stop or
>termination.

I would go further than this, and assert that an optimal design would
not require the switched task to be aware of task switching at all.